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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02743	The rarities of Turkey, gathered by one that was sold seven times a slave in the Turkish Empire, and now exposed to view for the benefit of his native countrey:.	Georgijević, Bartolomej, d. ca. 1566.	1661 (1661)	Wing D1921A; ESTC R175972	34,635	147

all things necessary for man's sustenance Of their Beverage THey have three sorts of drinks the first made with Sugar and Honey mingled with Water The second of Raisins the stones taken out and boyled in Water whereto they add some Rose-water and a little perfect Honey and this is to be sold in most parts thorow Turky for it is sweet and puffeth up the belly The third is made of a Fruit called Pechmez into Must and hath a kinde of Honey-taste and colour with it this mingled with Water is given to their Servants The Houses where they sell are frequented as Osteries in Italy or Taverns with us Turks for the most part drink onely Water they are not suffered to buy or swallow Wines and who happens to be accused and proved to have drunken thereof his testimony in all occasions and actions in invalid and yet in private Christian houses they do not abstain Of their manner of eating WHen they go to Dinner they first strow Mattresses on the floor and spread upon them Carpets or Pillows some sit on the bare ground Their Tables are made of skins and plaited to be drawn open more or less like to a budget They neither sit as we do nor lie along on elbowes as the ancients but like a cross of Burgondy with leggs infolded they sit Taylor-wise They alwayes Pray before they eat then eat greedily and hastily but with deep silence and in that time their Wives secluded from them Men-servants after twelve yeers age are never suffered to co-habitate in houses where Women are but under such age they go about the houses serving their Master's occasions Captive women have never liberty to go abroad unless their Mistresses or Ladies go to Vineyards Graves of Friends departed Baths or Gardens out of Town which they often do for recreation sake and otherwise are kept strict at work in houses not suffered to converse with other captive Servants as shall be more at large declared in the following Chapter Their dishes are commonly placed at such distance one over another as 't were on Pillars that each man may make choice of three which pleaseth best They eat three times a day but quick therein unless at a Feast where they sit all day CHAP. II. Of the afflictions of Captives and Christians under the Turkish Tribute WHen the King of Turks makes Expeditions against Christians amongst divers sorts of Merchants there alway follow him on Camels a mighty number of Buyers or Scorcers of Children or Men who in hope of getting Slaves carry with them bundles of long Ropes wherewith they easily tye together fifty or sixty men These traders purchase of the Souldiery or Free-booters whomsoever the Sword hath not devoured which is granted them upon condition that the King may have the tenth of what is traffick'd for the rest unto themselves to sell Nor is there any Merchandize so profitable amongst them nor so frequent as anciently among the Romans who called things fairly bought their proper Goods and Rights as just as that of Slaves How the Turks imploy their slaves THe youth and aged of both Sexes whom Chance by tenths appropriates to the Turk he thus disposeth the elder in yeers he sells for Husband-men who yet are rarely or cheap bought for they seldom escape the Sword their age making them less vendible Young men and Maidens they confine them in Seraglio's there to be instructed in useful Arts for future times But first they must deny their Faith in Christ and then be circumcifed And thus initiated in their Ceremonies they diligently examine their physiognomies and the several lineaments of their bodies and then the whole composure and according to conceived strength forwardness of wit and dispositions they are destinated to learn Laws of the Country or discipline of Wars and in the mean time are allowed a dayly stipend of two or three Aspers sixty whereof make five shillings which they conceive a liberal sufficiency for diet and clothing until they are fitted for imployments In the elements of War they thus are trained according to each strength they first have given them a light bow skill and strength increasing they have a greater and a heavier so by degrees they are fitted for expedition They have Instructors severe Exactors of their dayly Exercises and whensoever they erre much from the mark so often are they cruelly whip'd with scourges These are inrolled in the order of Bow-men Others are instructed and made fit for Janizaries who have appointed Masters and Teachers every day to fight two together with Cudgels Others an horrid thing who have more lovely faces are so close cut that nothing like Man is left them and this not done without great and eminent danger to life and if the party escape death his health is for no other use but their most wicked lusts and after youth 's grown aged they are put to the offices of Eunuchs to attend on Ladies Concubines Horses Mules and some Kitchin-imployments The condition of Virgins and other Women SUch as are of extraordinary beauty comeliness or composition of body are chosen out for Concubines mean and indifferent Faces are appointed Matrons hand-maids amongst whose offices some are so filthy and so loathsome as were before though somewhat uncivilly related Others are set to womens work as spinning carding weaving It is free for none of them to profess the Christian Faith or hope of liberty during life There is some content in hope but these have none How private Turks use Prisoners HItherto hath been spoken how the Kings use Captives now how private men their Prisoners newly taken first they threaten them with all sorts of meancing sharp words promises and allurements to entice them to Circumcision which if yeilded to they are treated somewhat more courteously but then all hope of ever returning to their Country is clean cut off and whosoever endeavours it burning is his appointed punishment Such as are thought more firm and less fugitive are admitted to their Masters Military imployments and can onely be made free when age hath made them useless and then he is rather turned off then remitted orderly or when the Master by hurt in War or danger of death bequeaths him liberty They are permitted marriage but their Children are disposed at the Master's pleasure which makes the more understanding sort utterly abhor marriage They who refuse Circumcision are miserably and unhumanely treated of which I have had the experience of thirteen yeers sufferings nor can I express in words the great calamities of such people How Christians ignorant in mechanick Arts are used THe condition of such unskilful men is wretched Those whose toyl brings profit are onely in reputation with them and therefore learned Men Priests and Noble men who have lived in retiredness and pleasures when they fall into the hands of Turks are of all most miserable the Merchant or Manscourser bestows no cost on them as scant vendible they walk with naked head and feet and often their

but Eunuchs are suffered to be with them not their own Sons if above twelve years of age they never go abroad but accompanied with onely Women Of Strangers PIlgrims of several Nations travel to visit holy places which the Turk possesseth as Mecha and Medinum as Christians Jerusalem where they say Mahomet was buried but this is done as well for gain and profit as for devotion or Religions sake And there having seen a gilded Shoo hanging from the roof of the Church bought such fine linen and cloath as they please they return home with great advantage some carrying about the Streets water from thence in glasses for devotions sake and freely give it to any that are thirsty others do the like for profit And if any one of them happen to die in this Pilgrimage by what occasion soever although he ne'er arrive neer Mecha yet he hath the estimation and shall be placed in the rank of Pilgrims Miracles done by Mahomet at Mecha which they say he still doth in these times I Know not whether I should call them Miracles or rather Monstrous toyes written in their book called Mehemedine wherein they are perswaded that when Mecha was a building GOD by the prayers of Mahomet commanded divers mountains to bring their stone to the Fabrick of that Church every Hill his tenth and when divers Mountains had brought their portions and Mecha built and perfectly compleated a certain Hill called Araphat and some other more remote coming thither with their tenths somewhat too late and finding Mecha built and no use of their stones they began most bitterly to weep which when Mahomet perceived Hills so distressed and understood the cause he said unto them Be of good cheer weep not but store your tenths up in a place which I shall shew you and whosoever shall not pray upon your stones his pilgrimage shall be unprofitable and unaccepted And after so doing Mahomet struck the stones with his foot and there issued out Water not useful to drink and imposed a name and called it A water of purification whereof every Pilgrim carrieth at his return some portions thereof in vessels and whenever any die the vestures wherewith the body is to be covered are sprinkled with this water for remission of their sins And they further affirm That no man can come to Mecha whose visit is not known to Mahomet who reveals the persons to the Keepers there all Eunuchs and if a Pilgrim come a Ravisher or wicked Man a Christian or any of Religion different from theirs these said Keepers forbid him entrance into Mecha But the body of Mahomet is not there as some affirm but onely an imaginary form in the Wall of the Church expressing the lineament of a body which is often kissed and so they return home again Such lying follies for miracles these Infidels are possessed with concerning Mahomet and divers others so ridiculous as I omit for modesties sake yet must advise the Reader if he please to interrogate any Turk therein and he will finde I have spoke nothing but meer Truth Of their Alms. THe Alcoran obligeth men to Alms as meritorious and much pleasing God and saith The contrary comes from the Devil They have Hospitals for poor travellers built by the Wills and Legacies of their Kings where they have meat in different manners some allow Rice with flesh others prepare Wheat Bread and Water to drink but for rest or Lodgings there is no place allowed yet there are some few publick receptacles where they are received without charge or other bedding than Straw or Hay but they repose under a good Roof Of their Sacrifice THeir Offerings or Oblations are for the most part upon promise or vows in sicknesses or other dangers and then they kill an Ox or a Sheep according to abilities and promise to sacrifice it in some certain place This Offering is not burnt or placed on an Altar after the custome of the Jews but the beast being killed the skin head and feet and a fourth part of the flesh is given to the Priest another part to the poor a third to neighbours and the remainder they keep for themselves and friends to rejoyce withal Neither are they tied to perform these vows unless they escape the disease or danger for which they intended them all things with them being conditionall I give you if you give me And the like is observed by the Greeks Armenians and other Asiatick people even of the Christian Faith Of their Wills and Legacies IF any of their Musselmen make a Will their Legacies are given before Friends or Neighbours and they are commonly for cutting Water-courses for conveying Springs from some remote places to Hospitals Churches or dry habitations and that for Piety sake and their souls benefit Others give money to free bond-men out of thraldom But Women for the most part as most superstitious bequeath their gifts to Souldiers for a certain slaughter of Christians which they conceive to be greatly beneficial for their Souls The Legacies of their Kings are for the building of Hospitals Churches and so likewise are those of eminent and great personages Ceremonies of the Dead VVHen any of their Musselmen die men take the Funeral-care of men and women of women They wash the departed body very clean and wrap it in fine linen then they carry it out of Town into some remote place for they hold it sinful to bury in their Churches first Friends of the deceased and Priests meet and go in progress certain Monks bearing wax Candles then follow some of their Priests singing till they come to the Grave shaking their heads often turning round fall down with giddiness as in a trance The better sort have their Graves lined with Boards at bottom and at sides and covered with Boards on which they throw the Earth and strowe sometimes the seeds of Flowers thereon Great Men and Bassa's have peculiar Chappels for themselves and Kindred The poor are buried by high-wayes or in open-field If the deceased be of poor ability there is then money gathered for satisfaction of labour for those religious Men which is offered in the Streets Of the edifice of a Sepulchre called Tulbe OVer this stately Tombe being Prince-like there is erected a goodly Temple wherein their Kings are buried in the City with great magnificence Both rich and meaner have an Altar built of such an heighth as Beasts cannot annoy or pollute it with any foulness thither with lamentations weepings they often return and spread upon the monument sacrifices of meats bread flesh cheese eggs milk This Solemnity or Funeral-Supper continues for nine dayes after the parties burial according to the Heathen manner for the soul of teh departed and it is left to be eaten by the Poor by Ants or Fowls of the Air. They say It equally pleaseth God to give alms to Beasts that want as men when they are given for God's sake I have seen many buy birds in cages at good values